Homeland recap: '13 Hours in Islamabad'

December 8, 2014 5:33 AM

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Where Homeland's third season memorably, gratefully ended with a gasp and a whimper—when Carrie Mathison watching helplessly as her beloved Brody reached the end of a rope that had been around his neck since 2010—then this season seems determined to go out in completely the opposite way: With a series of great, big, unpredictable bangs, designed to excite and titillate even its most jaded viewers.

When we last saw Carrie and Saul Berenson, they were in a convoy back to the embassy that had just been blown up by rocket launchers, leading to questions about whether Homeland had just made the extraordinary choice to kill off its two most central characters. Gutsy as that would have been, it turn...